Evelyn Waugh Quotes

Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.

We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us but for ours to amuse them.

We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us but for ours to amuse them.

Change is the only evidence of life.

Conversation should be like juggling; up go the balls and plates, up and over, in and out, good solid objects that glitter in the footlights and fall with a bang if you miss them.

...any one who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. It is the people brought up in the gay intimacy of the slums, Paul learned, who find prison so soul destroying.

Ah well, to the journalist every country is rich.

At a banquet given in his honour Sir Jocelyn Hitchcock once modestly attributed his success in life to the habit of "getting up earlier than the other fellow." But this was partly metaphorical, partly false and in case wholly relative for journalists are as a rule late risers.